Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Speakers: Mark Fisher & Patrick Peralta Big Data Track Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/cloud-native-data-flow-orchestration

The Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Task projects provide a simple and powerful framework for creating cloud native data microservices for stream and batch processing. Each microservice in these distributed systems consists of a stand-alone Spring Boot application.

While it is possible to define data pipelines across these microservice apps manually, Spring Cloud Data Flow is an integrated orchestration layer that…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Speakers: Viktor Gamov, Leonid Igolnik, Baruch Sadogursky Core Spring Track Slides: No slides all demo

Almost every major version of Spring framework introduced a new way to configure the context: XML, Annotations, Java Config, Groovy... What's next, and, more important - why so many?! And how to know what to use and when? In this session Baruch, Viktor and Leonid will try to find the silver bullet, and you will have a chance to vote for the best feature implementations or even make a bet of the winner!

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Speakers: Gunnar Hillert, Michael Minella Data / Integration Track Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/who-needs-batch Stream processing gets quite a bit of the press these days. Projects like Spark, Samza/Kafka, Google Cloud Dataflow, Apache Flink, and Amazon Kinesis bring the question of can we accomplish what we need without a batch component. This talk will take a hard look at if we still need batch these days, what that might look like in a modern development platform, and where Spring fits into it all.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015 Presenter: Rossen Stoyanchev Web / Javascript Track Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/spring-mvc-42-new-and-noteworthy-53171347

This talk provides a practical overview of new features for web applications in Spring Framework 4.2 including the addition of HTTP streaming, Server-Sent Events, a fine-grained model for cross-origin requests, comprehensive HTTP caching updates, and more. There are also plenty of updates for WebSocket-style messaging which this talk will cover.

On behalf of the team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.3.3 and 1.4.0.M1 have been released today. Spring Boot 1.3.3 includes 60 fixes and a selection of improvements and dependency upgrades. This release is a recommended upgrade for all users.

Spring Boot 1.4.0.M1 is available in the Spring milestone repository and provides a number of improvements and new features. For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.4 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation has also been updated.

Thanks again to everyone that has contributed to the release! Please give it a go and report any problems using the project Issue tracker…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.4.RELEASE. This release is the fourth maintenance release of the 4.0 line. It provides minor fixes along with a fix for backwards compatibility of Spring Framework 4.1.x. For complete details on the release, refer to the Change Log.

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It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.2.5 is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central! This fifth maintenance release in the 4.2 line contains 40 fixes and improvements and is a recommended upgrade for all 4.x users, in particular also from 4.1 now.

Our next stop is the first release candidate of Spring Framework 4.3 next month, with many key features (including several core container refinements) available in the snapshots already. Please give a 4.3 snapshot a try and let us know if you encounter any regressions.

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On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.1.0.RELEASE. The release can be found in Maven Central.

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With over 80 issues resolved, there is plenty found in this release. You can find a complete list of changes in the change logs (1.1.0.M1, 1.1.0.RC1, 1.1.0.RELEASE). A summary of the changes can be found below:

• Support for Hazelcast. Thanks @_mark_a and @tommyludwig!
• Support for GemFire Thanks to John Blum!
• Support for search for session by username
• Support Customize Cookie Creation. Thanks to everyone who provided PRs and feedback for this feature!
• Add HttpSessionListener support
• Allow override default RedisSerializer
• Performance improvements
• Allow scoping the session in Redis using redisNamespace. Thanks fstegmann!
• Allow writing to Redis immediately (instead of lazily) using redisFlushMode
• Add ExpiringSession.setLastAccessedTime(long)
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Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring XD 1.3.1 and Flo for Spring XD 1.0.1

• Spring XD 1.3.1 GA: zip, brew and rpm.
• Flo for Spring XD 1.0.1 GA: zip.

Here are some highlights of bug fixes and general improvements. Consult the JIRA release notes for the full list of issues fixed.

• Support for encryption in XD configuration files
• Support for Kafka sync or async producers
• Fix for Embedded Headers Message Converter Buffer Overflow
• Update default redis pool settings to have no limit on number of active connections
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 4.2.5, Spring Framework 4.2.5, Spring AMQP 3.6
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